Re: FVWM: Controlling initial size of a "gThumb" window

Dr Rainer Woitok <[email protected]> writes:

> Greetings,
>
> even though I'm using Xubuntu 16.04  I nevertheless use Gnome's "gthumb"
> as image viewer.  However, I cannot find a way to keep "gthumb" from op-
> ening a fullscreen window when fired up.
>
> So I ran "man fvwm"  and checked the stlye options,  but "MaxWindowSize"
> isn't really what I want, because it prevents me from later manually in-
> creasing the window.  Is there some way to just specify an INITIAL wind-
> ow size or even window geometry?

I'm on Fedora.  I installed gthumb and tried to start it up without
any input files.

Core dump.

So, I gave it an input png file.  It started up in a window.
I clicked the big square in the bogus extra window options bar and got
a screen sized window.  I was able to right click and select resize
to make the window smaller.

Then I looked in settings/browser and selected open image in full
screen.  Then I quit and restarted.  Rather I attempted to restart,
now even with an image on the command line gthumb crashes on start up.

So, I removed the user configuration it created:

rm -rf .config/gthumb

Now it crashes on startup.
Nope, another test, now it starts and it starts with the image in full
screen mode.  So, I can hit escape to get a regular size window.
Now I click on settings/browser and turn off full screen.

No joy, back to crashing on start up.

So, I'm afraid I can't duplicate your issue but I can see gthumb
is really buggy.  Starting from a command line, I see various error
messages,  this is one recent one:

home> gthumb me.jpg 

(gthumb:23283): GLib-ERROR **: 08:48:49.891: gmem.c:170: failed to allocate 140737488355328 bytes
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)


home> gthumb -v
gthumb 3.6.2, Copyright © 2001-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Hopefully, this post shows how to clear an existing set of options or
if you can get gthumb started, you can see where to turn off full screen.

Damn thing just started again for me.
I'm going to uninstall it.


-- 
Dan Espen